Re: Removing workgroups?!?!

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What we have are several workgroups (hope I'm using the correct term) under:

My Network Places-->
Entire Network-->
Microsoft Windows Network-->

Then 'workgroups' like:

MSHOME
WORK

and various others people have created and I'm trying to clean up some of
them.



"uggabugga" <uggabugga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:56D84FFC-E023-4DB3-B8D7-494831D5BD38@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> By default unless a PC is part of a domain, it is part of a workgroup.
> Even
> if it is a stand alone PC it is a member of it's own wrokgroup. You can
> only
> remove it from that workgroup by changing the name of the workgroup.
> --
> That's just like my opinion, Man........
>
>
> "Brian" wrote:
>
>> Howdy All,
>>
>> I am curious how to remove a workgroup once it is present in a
>> peer-to-peer
>> network?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>


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